The scholars differed regarding other than date palms and grapevines, and other than those grains used as staple foods. Some held that no tithe is due on any of them; this was the view of Ibn Abī Laylā and al-Shāfiʿī.

Al-Zuhrī, al-Awzāʿī, and Mālik said that it is due on olives. Abū Ḥanīfah said: The tithe is due on all herbs and vegetables, just as it is due on fruits, except grass and firewood. For every type of fruit on which we hold zakat to be obligatory, it becomes due when ripeness first appears, while payment is made after harvesting and drying. For every grain on which we hold the tithe to be obligatory, it becomes due when the grain has hardened, while payment is made after threshing and cleaning.

According to most scholars, the tithe is not due on any of these until it reaches five wasqs (1). According to Abū Ḥanīfah, it is due on every amount of it, small or large. Those who stipulated a minimum threshold cited the report transmitted to us by Abū al-Ḥasan al-Sarakhsī, from Zāhir ibn Aḥmad, from Abū Isḥāq al-Hāshimī, from Abū Muṣʿab, from Mālik, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ṣaʿṣaʿah al-Māzinī, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No zakat is due on less than five wasqs of dates; no zakat is due on less than five awqiyyahs of silver; and no zakat is due on fewer than five camels.” (2)

Yaḥyā ibn ʿUbādah related from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No zakat is due on grain or dates until it reaches five wasqs.” (3) Others said that the verse concerns voluntary charity.

ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad al-Malīḥī informed us; Abū Manṣūr al-Samʿānī informed us; Abū Jaʿfar al-Rayyānī informed us; Ḥumayd ibn Zanjawayh informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā informed us; Abū ʿAwānah informed us, from Qatādah, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No believer plants a tree or sows a crop from which a person, a bird, or an animal eats, but it is counted as charity for him.” (4)

His saying, Most High: “Do not deliberately seek out”—Ibn Kathīr, in al-Bazzī’s transmission, recited it with the letter t doubled when continuing the recitation, here and in thirty-one similar places in the Quran. This is because it originally contains two t’s, one of which was omitted; he restored the omitted one and assimilated it. The other reciters read it without doubling. Its meaning is: Do not deliberately select the inferior part of it to give away.

It is related from ʿAdī ibn Thābit, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, who said: When it was time to harvest the date palms, the Anṣār would bring out